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More rumors. If Yahoo does win Facebook, that’d be quite a coup, even at $2 billion, I’d warrant. But, Google has a way of swooping in at the last minute and winning the deal. If Google bought Facebook, would that be a shark-jumping move? Would that be Google simply owning too much of the current web?

Related: Murdoch in the Journal: “We’ve got to find new ways and new business models to get revenues. Or else the world is going to be owned by Google.”

It is quite obvious that Google is trying to play the same role online as Microsoft in the desktop applications. And I can not say I actually object to it – Google only adds the best into its collection and usually the apps fit rather well into the Google mosaic. What I don’t understand is what Google will do with Facebook if it gets it – it already has Orkut, and Facebook will be the second social network. We have already seen Yahoo! abandoning Yahoo! photos in favor of Flickr but how Orkut users could be transferred into Facebook?